Cover of 1964 Thorny Club Official Members Book You know all the characters on the Thorny Bucks pictured here, don't you?  On the bo...

Here are some of the early employees of Thornbury's pictured at the Shelbyville Rd. store.  The young man on the right is Bill Muthle...

Below is a condensed version of a 1,300-word feature article that was published in The Louisville Times on December 20, 1976. The photo a...

  Uncle Jim proudly show off one of his hundreds of toys.                                        

Uncle Ed Kallay, a Louisville celebrity, works with the puppets on one of the Guess Who sets.    

This dapper looking birthday boy just opened the Birthday Chest with the key that he received in his birthday card from Thornbury's....

Looks like this young lady just won a new Schwinn Bicycle in one of Thornbury's Toys give-ways.

The main store at 4101 Shelbyville Road, Louisville, KY, ca. 1969    When Thornbury's Toys outgrew their original location at 117 Br...

When Thornbury's was founded in 1954, there were no enclosed, climate-controlled shopping malls; the first one opened two years later...

From "1964 Thorny Club Official Members Book containing Home-viewers Games on Guess Who! and Toys Sold by Thornbury's Toys" ...

"Toy Sales SOAR" thanks to the Guess Who? Show. This is the next part of the flyer advertising the Guess Who? show on WAVE-...

Thorny hanging ten! Skateboarding was very popular back in the mid 1970s, not unlike today. Skateboards and skateboard accessories and g...

Liberty National Bank print ad, 1981 Thornbury's Toys grew very slowly in their first location at 117 Breckinridge Lane.  But the St...

Look! It is the key that was mailed to thousands of kids on their birthday.  When the key was put in the lock on the Birthday Chest at ...

Fireman Bill was really a fireman with the St. Matthews Fire Department.  He was a very talented artist and was one of Thornbury's ...

Fireman Bill is shown in this excerpt from "1964 Thorny Club Official Members Book containing Home-viewers Games on Guess Who! and...

This was the set up for the Guess Who show, which aired on WAVE-TV. The young contestants would watch Fireman Bill draw a cartoon characte...

By the time Thornbury's Toys opened in 1954, Lionel trains had been around for 54 years, Tinker Toys for 40 years, Raggedy Ann for 3...

Here is the Queen of Toys!  She is one of many characters that appear on Thorny Bucks. Do you remember them? If you spent $1.00 at Thorn...

Trigger Tom is shown in this excerpt from "1964 Thorny Club Official Members Book containing Home-viewers Games on Guess Who! and To...